What's next in the sky
A running calendar of the sky events worth planning around: meteor shower peaks, solar and lunar eclipses. Dates for meteor showers are peak nights and are good to about a day; the showers themselves run for weeks around them.
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1What makes a good viewing year
For meteor showers, one thing matters more than anything else: the Moon. A bright Moon near a shower's peak washes out the fainter meteors, which is most of them. A new Moon on the peak, like the 2026 Perseids get, can be the difference between seeing a dozen an hour and seeing eighty. The same dark-sky logic drives aurora visibility, which is why our Aurora tonight page tracks moonlight too.
The other inputs are simpler: get away from city lights, give your eyes 20 to 30 minutes to adapt, and prefer the hours after midnight, when your side of Earth rotates into the oncoming meteor stream.
2Why a solar-storm site tracks the sky
Everything here is one system. The Sun drives the aurora we forecast, eclipses are the Moon crossing the Sun we watch every day, and dark-sky nights are shared currency between meteor watching and aurora chasing. When a sky event is worth clearing your calendar for, subscribers hear about it alongside the storm alerts.